Millennia below our feet. Excavation in the Courtyard of the Buda Hospital of the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God

This excavation site lies at the foot of the Buda hills on the bank of the Danube. It is also near thermal springs in an area that could serve as a harbour, an important factor for settlers in the Roman period and the Middle Ages. The excavation in the heart of the Hungarian capital offered a look into some two thousand years of Budapest’s history, as we found the remains from many centuries lying one below the other. In the Middle Ages, this area was called Budafelhévíz, but no archaeological remains had been known from the area until now, with the exception of the Church of the Holy Trinity discovered in 1906. Although there was indirect evidence suggesting that the area had been inhabited in the Roman period, there was hardly any archaeological data on settlement density. The present research has brought new and significant results in terms of both the mediaeval and the Roman-period topography